Re: Plans for ahead

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

David Chisnall wrote:
> I agree.  The FreeBSD GNUstep packages include a lot of things, but you need to 
> do a lot of tinkering to make them integrate even vaguely with typical 
> environments.  For the ones that we use in the lab, I’ve configured a more 
> modern looking theme[1] and the in-window menus.  With this, the apps still 
> look fairly distinctive, but work quite well and people don’t complain.

I absolutely want "our" menus, they are distinctive and useful and if I 
were to make a reference distribution, I'd want to retain that.

You have the opposite problem, you want to deploy a certain GS 
application into a non-GS environment.
I know the pain, I have exactly the same need!

I have my app, I have an in-window menu theme (in this case needed 
because you are the foreign thing to fit into Windows or GNOME). But 
then  still every single user needs to "set" the theme for himself.

This is the problem I often referred to, where I want to be able to 
"set" a default preference for a user. Or to have certain preferences 
pre-set inside a plist. A way so that once installed an pp sets some 
defaults to itself. System wide defaults?
When installing with a package one could do perhaps a post-installation 
script, but that is not my case.

I think this is the opposite of the original topic, but still very 
useful to solve.

Riccardo